A New Online Exhibition: “Making the Greatest Medical Library In America”

From Circulating Now/National Library of Medicine:

On a quest to bring together and catalog the world’s medical knowledge, John Shaw Billings, an Army surgeon and book collector who oversaw the U.S. Surgeon General’s library (today known as NLM), acquired approximately 300 pamphlets from the private collection of the renowned French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1878. Later that year, these scientific pamphlets, which illuminate the professional associations and intellectual interests of one of medicine’s pioneer thinkers, were featured in a display now recognized as the NLM’s first exhibition.

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, a new online exhibition, showcases items featured in the 1878 display to explore NLM’s long history of collecting, cataloging, and communicating quality medical information to researchers, publishers, librarians, educators, healthcare professionals and members of the public for generations. The exhibition also spotlights the work of contemporary library professionals who cataloged, conserved, and digitized items from the Claude Bernard collection.

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